Co-authored with the Dean of Melbourne, this book has a new accessible biography of Bonhoeffer, new translations of his poems, close readings from the Bible and The Cost of Discipleship, reflections, prayers and questions for individual or group study.

Bonhoeffer wrote The Cost of Discipleship while leading an ‘underground’ seminary, in hiding from the Nazi government and the church leaders who supported Hitler.

The work is both timeless and timely. Next year, it will be 75 years since Bonhoeffer was executed in a concentration camp, and 75 years since the end of World War II. At the same time, people around the world are working against current oppression and exclusion.

A book launch will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne on 24 November, followed by events in Sydney and other cities.

It was a delight to visit Canberra during the first week in November for a book event celebrating our book How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble. The event was held at Harry Hartog’s bookshop at the Australian National University campus, and it was a wonderful chance to meet readers and for potential readers to meet us.

It was an absolute pleasure to sit down with Ted Davies (and producer Frank Prain) to listen to music from Tori Amos, through Britten and Bach, to works setting my words to music by Andrew Schultz, Micheal Leighton Jones and Peter Campbell.

Reflections is a weekly interview program that explores the life and achievements of an eminent local, national or international personality and includes fine music from our guest’s personal selection of favourites.

The program is broadcast each Sunday at 4pm and repeated at 3pm the following Friday.

If you are finding the PhD hard, that’s okay. If you are being bullied or are getting sick because of the PhD, that’s not okay. Find a way to make the PhD hard like climbing a mountain, not hard like being hit with a stick.

Nearly 7,000 people have read the original post, and I’ve received many comments from students who found it helpful. I hope the THE version reaches, and helps, even more people!

‘Restless, yearning, sick, like a bird in a cage… hungry for colours, for life, for birdsong’.From ‘Who Am I?‘

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a theologian for our times: an intellectual who worked across barriers of race, denomination and language. For his role in heading an underground seminary, and his work with the resistance against the Nazi regime, he was imprisoned, interned in concentration camps and executed. Bonhoeffer’s writings invite us to ask about what captivity really means, and what it is to have freedom.

A new recording of my lyrics for ‘In Advent Heat’ by the Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne, is published by Acis Records on Beneath the Incense Tree: Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, including works by living composers including many commissions for the choir.

‘In Advent Heat’ is a shimmering setting by Melbourne-based composer and musicologist Peter Campbell, for a work that can be sung through the whole Christmas season from Advent to Epiphany.

The words have become regular additions to Carol services in Melbourne as a poem, as well.

The words describe the journey of the Wise Men through an Australian desert (so different from the Middle Eastern landscapes they would have encountered. or the freezing cold so familiar from northern hemisphere carols).